| dbo:abstract
|
- Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra (29 October 1929 – 1 June 2020) was an Indian anthropologist born in Odisha. He graduated in anthropology from the University of Calcutta and received a doctorate from the University of Hamburg. He was Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University in 1986 and Sambalpur University in 1989. While heading the anthropology department at Utkal University, he was the first academic in India to start a course on Southeast Asia in the regular curriculum at the university level in India. He became the first person from Odisha to receive the highest award for social sciences from the Indian University Grant Commission. Mahapatra served as a consultant to the World Bank from 1985 to 1988 and again from 1995 to 1996 on rehabilitation of displaced populations of India. He served as the director of the Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies in Bhubaneswar, a social science research study centre set up by the Government of Odisha in collaboration with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) from 2003 to 2006. He has been vice president of the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropology, vice president of the Anthropological Association of India, and founder president of the Association for Friendship and Cultural Corporation With Indonesia. He was awarded the gold medal by the in 2004 for his lifelong contribution to anthropology. He was honoured by the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropology in 2015. He died in Bhubaneswar on June 1, 2020 at the age of 90. (en)
|
| dbo:birthDate
| |
| dbo:nationality
| |
| dbo:thumbnail
| |
| dbo:wikiPageID
| |
| dbo:wikiPageLength
|
- 7707 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
|
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
| |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
| |
| dbp:birthDate
| |
| dbp:birthPlace
| |
| dbp:caption
|
- Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra (en)
|
| dbp:children
|
- Sheela Mahapatra , (en)
- Sujit Mahapatra (en)
|
| dbp:citizenship
| |
| dbp:deathPlace
| |
| dbp:education
| |
| dbp:name
|
- Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra (en)
|
| dbp:nationality
| |
| dbp:occupation
|
- Anthropologist, Educator (en)
|
| dbp:spouse
|
- Hiran Prava Mahapatra (en)
|
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
| dbp:workplaces
| |
| dcterms:subject
| |
| rdf:type
| |
| rdfs:comment
|
- Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra (29 October 1929 – 1 June 2020) was an Indian anthropologist born in Odisha. He graduated in anthropology from the University of Calcutta and received a doctorate from the University of Hamburg. He was Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University in 1986 and Sambalpur University in 1989. While heading the anthropology department at Utkal University, he was the first academic in India to start a course on Southeast Asia in the regular curriculum at the university level in India. He died in Bhubaneswar on June 1, 2020 at the age of 90. (en)
|
| rdfs:label
|
- Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra (en)
|
| owl:sameAs
| |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
| foaf:depiction
| |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
| foaf:name
|
- Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra (en)
|
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
of | |
| is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |